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Tuesday, May 15

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Title: Melanopsin Signaling in the Eye
Speaker: King-Wai Yau, Ph.D., Professor, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Host: Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D., Department of Cellular Biology
Sponsor: DNC Neuroscience Seminar Series
Location: DNC Auditorium, 3528 General Atomics Court

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Title: Transition-metal Catalyzed C-O Activation
Speaker: Zhang-Jie Shi, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Host: Prof. Jin-Quan Yu
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

Wednesday, May 16

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: Two novel mesocorticolimbic networks: a glutamate network and a glutamate-dopamine network
Speaker: Marisela Morales, Ph.D., Branch Chief, Neuronal Networks Section, National Institutes on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Biomedical Research Center
Host: Pietro P. Sanna, M.D., Molecular & Integrative Neurosciences Department
Sponsor: Structure and Neuroscience Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

Thursday, May 17

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Title: Adventures in Anthropogeny: Uniquely Human Features of Sialic Acid Biology
Speaker: Ajit Varki, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Sponsor: Immunology Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Title: The role of GPR21 in obesity-induced inflammation and insulin resistance
Speaker: Dr. Olivia Osborn, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego
Host: The Cravatt Laboratory
Sponsor: Department of Chemical Physiology
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Title: DNA as a Catalyst: Teaching and Old Biological Dog New Chemical Tricks
Speaker: Dr. Scott Silverman, Department of Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Dr. Floyd Romesberg
Sponsor: Structure & Chemistry Affinity Group
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

Wednesday, May 23

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis
Speaker: Professor Mohammad Movassaghi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry
Host: Chemistry Graduate Students
Sponsor: Chemistry Distinguished Lecture Series
Location: Timken Amphitheater, Scripps Green Hospital

Thursday, May 24

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Title: Host determinants of viral persistence
Speaker: Elina Zuniga, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
Sponsor: Immunology Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Dr. Mark Paetzel, Associate Professor, Michael Smith Foundation for Health, Research Senior Scholar, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University
Host: Dr. Floyd Romesberg
Sponsor: Structure & Chemistry Affinity Group
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

Friday, May 25

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Title: The Development of a Short and Efficient Synthesis of a Complex Clinical Candidate
Speaker: Martin Eastgate, Ph.D., Bristol-Myers Squibb
Host: Phil Baran, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

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GHB - Green Hospital Building
IMM - Immunology Building
MBB - The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
SRC - Stein Research Center
MEM - Molecular and Experimental Medicine Building

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